Modern inquiries, classical, professional, and miscellaneous / by Jacob Bigelow.

  • Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.
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Modern inquiries, classical, professional, and miscellaneous / by Jacob Bigelow. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1867 (Cambridge : John Wilson.)

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xi, 379 pages ; 20 cm

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Includes index

Contents

l. On the limits of education -- 2. On classical and utilitarian studies -- 3. On the life and works of Count Rumford -- 4. On the death of Pliny the Elder -- 5. On the burial of the dead, and Mount Auburn Cemetery --6. Report of the action of Cochituate water on lead pipes, and the influence of the same on health -- 7. On self-limited diseases -- 8. On the treatment of disease -- 9. On the medical profession and quackery -- 10. Brief expositions of rational medicine -- ll. The paradise of doctors, a fable -- 12. Practical views on medical education -- 13. On the early history of medicine -- 14. Whether cholera is contagious -- 15. Testimony on the cattle disease in Massachusetts -- 16. Report on homœopathy -- 17. Address delivered before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -- 18. Aphorisms on the War, I -- 19. Aphorisms on the War, II -- 20. Dialogue between Napoleon the First, and Jeremiah, a late citizen of the United States -- 21. The dark side, the bright side, the practicable side

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